Psychiatric emergency department visits during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic
BackgroundPrevious research has demonstrated the negative impact of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on mental health.AimsTo examine changes in the Chinese psychiatric emergency department (PED) visits for mental health crises that occurred during the pandemic.MethodsBefore and durin...
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| author | HaiMing Sun HaiChun Liu ChunYan Ma Zheng Chen YanYan Wei XiaoChen Tang LiHua Xu YeGang Hu YuOu Xie Tao Chen Tao Chen Zheng Lu JiJun Wang JiJun Wang JiJun Wang TianHong Zhang |
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| description | BackgroundPrevious research has demonstrated the negative impact of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on mental health.AimsTo examine changes in the Chinese psychiatric emergency department (PED) visits for mental health crises that occurred during the pandemic.MethodsBefore and during the COVID-19 pandemic, PED visit counts from the largest psychiatric hospital in China between 2018 and 2020 were investigated. Electronic medical records of 2020 PED visits were extracted during the COVID-19 pandemic period and compared for the same period of 2018 and 2019.ResultsOverall, PED visits per year increased from 1,767 in 2018 to 2210 (an increase of 25.1%) in 2019 and 2,648 (an increase of 49.9%) in 2020. Compared with 2 years before the epidemic, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of PED visits among patients with stress disorders, sleep disorders, and anxiety disorders increased significantly. In terms of the distribution of demographic characteristics, age shows a younger trend, while the gender difference is not significant.ConclusionThese findings suggest that PED care-seeking increases during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the need to integrate mental health services for patients with stress, sleep, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders during public health crises. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-41699d273a5c468895ce3fa6fb79dab32023-08-28T09:01:30ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402023-08-011410.3389/fpsyt.2023.12365841236584Psychiatric emergency department visits during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemicHaiMing Sun0HaiChun Liu1ChunYan Ma2Zheng Chen3YanYan Wei4XiaoChen Tang5LiHua Xu6YeGang Hu7YuOu Xie8Tao Chen9Tao Chen10Zheng Lu11JiJun Wang12JiJun Wang13JiJun Wang14TianHong Zhang15Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Psychological Evaluation and Intervention, Shanghai, ChinaDepartment of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Psychological Evaluation and Intervention, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Psychological Evaluation and Intervention, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Psychological Evaluation and Intervention, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Psychological Evaluation and Intervention, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Psychological Evaluation and Intervention, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Psychological Evaluation and Intervention, Shanghai, ChinaThe First Clinical Medical College of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, ChinaBig Data Research Lab, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, CanadaLabor and Worklife Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDepartment of Psychiatry, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Psychological Evaluation and Intervention, Shanghai, ChinaCenter for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (CEBSIT), Chinese Academy of Science, Shanghai, ChinaInstitute of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Psychological Evaluation and Intervention, Shanghai, ChinaBackgroundPrevious research has demonstrated the negative impact of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on mental health.AimsTo examine changes in the Chinese psychiatric emergency department (PED) visits for mental health crises that occurred during the pandemic.MethodsBefore and during the COVID-19 pandemic, PED visit counts from the largest psychiatric hospital in China between 2018 and 2020 were investigated. Electronic medical records of 2020 PED visits were extracted during the COVID-19 pandemic period and compared for the same period of 2018 and 2019.ResultsOverall, PED visits per year increased from 1,767 in 2018 to 2210 (an increase of 25.1%) in 2019 and 2,648 (an increase of 49.9%) in 2020. Compared with 2 years before the epidemic, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of PED visits among patients with stress disorders, sleep disorders, and anxiety disorders increased significantly. In terms of the distribution of demographic characteristics, age shows a younger trend, while the gender difference is not significant.ConclusionThese findings suggest that PED care-seeking increases during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the need to integrate mental health services for patients with stress, sleep, anxiety, and obsessive-compulsive disorders during public health crises.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1236584/fullpsychiatric hospitalstressanxiety disordersleep disorderemergency psychiatry |
| spellingShingle | HaiMing Sun HaiChun Liu ChunYan Ma Zheng Chen YanYan Wei XiaoChen Tang LiHua Xu YeGang Hu YuOu Xie Tao Chen Tao Chen Zheng Lu JiJun Wang JiJun Wang JiJun Wang TianHong Zhang Psychiatric emergency department visits during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic Frontiers in Psychiatry psychiatric hospital stress anxiety disorder sleep disorder emergency psychiatry |
| title | Psychiatric emergency department visits during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic |
| title_full | Psychiatric emergency department visits during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic |
| title_fullStr | Psychiatric emergency department visits during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psychiatric emergency department visits during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic |
| title_short | Psychiatric emergency department visits during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic |
| title_sort | psychiatric emergency department visits during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic |
| topic | psychiatric hospital stress anxiety disorder sleep disorder emergency psychiatry |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1236584/full |
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